I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home yesterday - the TTR Computer Game. After installing it, I went right to the Swiss map, and I was very impressed with how that board plays, along with the special rules and new cards.

I know the Swiss board is only available on the computer, but I would like to officially petition DOW to consider a TTR expansion run - just print the board and the destination tickets and tunnel cards. Everything else can be handled by what we have in our TTR or TTR:Europe games. Call it the "Ticket To Ride Switzerland Expansion." For those of us who play a lot of 2-player TTR (with our wives, significant others, or friends), this would be a great board to have around! You can easily make 20-30 bucks off of all of us TTR owners, I'm sure.

If you are with me, plase add a post indicating your support. Hopefully the folks at DOW will consider it!

And while they're at it, perhaps they could print another run of the Mystery Train expansion cards. I'm sorry, but I just hate the idea of playing with "cards" I've printed out on the ink jet.

Or how about this...print the original Mystery Train cards for North America, another similar set for Europe, and the tickets and cards for Switzerland. (That could all be done in the same print run I would think.) Then manufacture the board and rules for Switzerland. Package it all together, collect $25 or so from each of us TTR nuts, and voila!

I 100% would buy that Swiss board, and would love to see it as a full box stand alone. Of course Marklin is on its way, but still I would love to own that board.

I also second the comment this would be a great board to have for those of us who play a lot of two and three player on boards at home...

Another comment - does anyone think the online map could be a little cleaner looking? USA and Europe look great, but the Swiss map is my favorite to play, except it looks smaller and lower res than the other ones. Am I delusional or is that for real?

I think DOW could make a significant amount of dollars printing boards and cards in a single package: Europe, Switzerland and Marklin with their cards and destination tix all together. Of course, that takes away from the marketability of making Switzerland only available online, thus potentially decreasing sales of the CD (sigh).

Maybe DOW would consider having Swiss destination tix and maps as printable jpg files on the CD...

I wanted to add my name to the growing list of Switzerland fans! I play quite a bit of TTR as a two-player board game, so it would a great map to have around.
I love the idea of having a double-sided board (just like Power Grid, for that matter).
Perhaps Alan already has alternate boards just waiting to go? England would be nice, for example...
Mark

First at all looked for an open Switzerland game to "observe" at the on-line game web. You have to check for a newly created game.

When a Switzerland game is just created, enter and observe it. If you double-click on the board, you can zoom on a piece of the map. When you have a portion zoomed, press the print-screen key, and then get into Photoshop and paste it. You have to do it up to 6 times to get all the board.

Then, cut the pieces of board from the print-screen images and paste them on a new file and compose the map. You will get a 1700x1092 pixels map, at a resolution of 72ppp.

Then change the map size up to 120% and here you have a full map that can be printed in several sheets of paper to compose the entire map.

I did it in less than 1 hour and, belive me, I'm just a newbie using photoshop so anyone can do it.

When a Switzerland game is just created, enter and observe it. If you double-click on the board, you can zoom on a piece of the map. When you have a portion zoomed, press the print-screen key, and then get into Photoshop and paste it. You have to do it up to 6 times to get all the board.

Why not to take one print-screen shot of the whole board, crop the picture and scale it with Photoshop, GIMP or whatever program you are using? I've tried it and the resolution seems good enough for me that way. It takes about 5 minutes at max to get the job done.

If you have the game installed, the swiss gameboard (and all the tickets as well, actually) are installed on your PC as jpg files... You will have to search a little bit, but it will be better than a simple "Print-Screen".

But I definitely join the petition : I would buy the board if it where printed by DoW - but the board and tickets only (stop selling me 225 wagons and 144 cards I already own, just to change the board ).

Please note I will only agree to buy the Switzerland map if it is packaged in a wooden limited edition box and every card inside are laser burned holograms, indiviually wrapped in gold foil. I would also be embarrassed to own it if I did not spend at least $100 US to have the priviledge of owning such an awe-striking game.

Either that or make a six sided cube set that has one full map on each side, and also please go door to door across north america and give it away for free. Because one time a friend of mine bought something from you, so now you owe us ALL! Do I look like I have $40 to spend on another game? Oh wait... I am using a computer with high speed internet, so, uh, yes I could actually easily afford that.

no u didn't - i just get a little sassy sometimes. plus, if you read around in here a bit you'll see players always asking for free stuff, complaining about expansion pcks, wanting a three for two deal, or saying " i dont want it to be a full set cuz i dont want to pay full price, etc."

so... my point is I honestly would love to see a "deluxe" edition special release on the switzerland map. full box. full card set. extra expensive production. make it a collector's editon - seriously. real players would be proud to own it.

i appreciate that kind of stuff, especially in a board game i love so much, and extra especially when i see a majority of other respondants saying "please make it cheap!" i know people like getting a deal, but at a certain point i feel they are taking value out of the game.

its not a cheap game. its quality. that's all... sorry for the extra dose of sacasm on my last post

I am really glad you took the time to elaborate on this.
I agree with you on both things :
- DOW stands for quality, so if there is ever to be a Switzerland, it should be quality (somehow with a theme like Switzerland, it has to be, I realised while reading your post).
- My post sounds like "please make it cheap".

My point was : I own already three huge boxes (TTR, TTRE, TTRM). I was not thinking about paying less, but about space (another huge box to find a place for, though on the other side it might be fun to find a space for such a box ) and about "save these trees, reuse and recycle".

So my appologies for sounding like a miserly guy looking for a free lunch

linael: cool - never thot of the recycling angle. maybe DOW could do a recycle program in addition to releasing the swiss map, such as send in your old small cards and tix from USA and get a "free" full size replacement set (of course you'd have to pay shipping and handling both ways). or same deal on any deck of overused tix and destinations.

i just watched The Day After Tommorrow and i don't really want another ice age!

I really like to see a switzerland map and would pick it up. Though it be even better as just the board and the destanation (sp) cards in a small box - and you use the pieces and train cards from Europe.

Maybe give a discount on the website to all those who have purchased 2 or more of the other TTR games (maybe they can do this by you entering in the webcodes).